Ball Four

Jim Bouton, Leonard Shecter

Wiley, Jul 26, 1990 - Biography & Autobiography - 472 pages

Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.

When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don'tordinarily follow baseball.

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My favorite baseball book. I must have read it before the start of every baseball season.

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A definite must read for all sports fans.

Contents

• part2 My Arm Isnt Sore Its Just A Little Stiff: 11
• appendix Tell Your Statistics To Shut Up: 399
• BALL SIXTwenty Years Later: 439

About the author

Jim Bouton, former major league pitcher, is now a writer, businessman, motivational speaker and ace pitcher for a semipro baseball team near his home in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ball Four
• Editors: Jim Bouton, Leonard Shecter
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Wiley, 1990
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Oct 9, 2009
• ISBN: 0020306652, 9780020306658
• Length: 472 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Performing Arts / General; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General; Sports & Recreation / Coaching / Baseball